The Democrat who wants to be Ohio's next lieutenant governor said Tuesday she would be the urban issues czar in Gov. Ted Strickland's second term if he's re-elected, promoting business development near city bus lines and helping more black males graduate from college.
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In 1992, Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman astronaut to blast into space. On Thursday, Jemison argued in favor of President Obama’s plans for NASA, saying the U.S. needs to develop a program that will advance space exploration to Mars and beyond.

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Rachel Maddow reviews the history of how "literacy tests" were used to prevent black people from voting in America and why Tom Tancredo's opening speech to the Tea Party Convention calling for the return of those tests is so abhorrent. Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree shares his insight